New
#11
Hi,
There is no point in repeating the same thing again and again without answering any questions raised or carrying out the suggestions.
Please answer the questions point by point :
1. Is your ebay purchased used DELL XPS 8000, running Windows 7 Home Premium 64 Bit? Yes/No
2. Is the Windows Product Key of that machine is 6RBBT-F8VPQ-QCPVQ-KHRB8-RMV82 ? Yes/No
3. Does that system show that it is activated? Yes/No (you can check it with Control Panel > All Control Panel Items > System. At the bottom of that screen you may see " Windows is activated " and below that the product ID XXXXX-OEM-8992687-00095 )
If the answers to all the above questions is Yes, you have a genuine DELL System with a valid SLIC Table in the Bios and your system will auto activate when you do a clean install with the DELL OEM Reinstallation DVD you have.
( I always prefer to format the drive beforehand, I always prefer to have the drivers downloaded from the Dell website, install those after the Windows installation is complete, take a backup when everything shows OK in the Device Manager and then only connect to the internet and allow windows to update .. That is how I had done my clean install with the DELL OEM installation Disk.)
Since it is a desktop, it may be possible to remove any video card plugged in, if the system originally had one such video card. It is for you to check . Most people use Speccy to determine the system content. You may run Speccy on your system and compare it with the one run on purchased system and check for a 1:1 compliance. You may also check the display adapter in both the systems with Device Manager.
The part No of the DELL OEM Reinsatallaion DVD Windows 7 Home Premium which I received from DELL and indicated at the bottom of the DVD is P/N :00WK4. Check that your DVD has that P/N at the bottom.
While you could have got it for free directly from DELL, other dealers might have sourced it from DELL or replicate it and sell it for a price.
Last edited by jumanji; 01 Oct 2014 at 00:00.